by Paul Brakke | Aug 15, 2019 | Media & Press Releases, The citizen-Police Divide
The relationships between citizens and the police have become worse than ever. Almost daily, the news features stories about police shooting citizens involved in criminal or suspicious activity, while citizens are fighting back by shooting the police, sometimes in an ambush.
by Paul Brakke | Apr 9, 2019 | Media & Press Releases, Resolving Problems in American Society
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE It all started nine years ago, when Paul Brakke, based in Little Rock, Arkansas, first wrote about his wife’s nightmare encounter with a criminal justice system two years before. She was threatened with 16 years in jail due to the false claims of...
by Paul Brakke | Apr 2, 2019 | Media & Press Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Today, the U.S. is wracked by problems including conflicts between the citizens and police, the divisions into warring factions, the immigration crisis, and the devastation wracked by opioids. The costs are in the trillions. But criminal justice...
by Paul Brakke | Mar 2, 2019 | Media & Press Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Citizen-police relations are becoming worse and worse, reflected in news of killings of citizens by police, ambushes of police by citizens, protests if an officer is justifiably cleared of killing a criminal with a gun in self-defense, and claims...
by Paul Brakke | Jan 11, 2019 | Media & Press Releases
Can a video campaign to promote citizen-police relationships, reduce crime, and fix the criminal justice system lead to social and political change? That’s the goal of criminal justice expert Paul Brakke, who has been conducting a 6-month video social media campaign based on his latest book: Crime in America.